Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos  

The Editors LFE

Issue number 19 of Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos is a very special one for all of us in the LFE editorial team and the Department of Filología Moderna at ULPGC, since it celebrates the 20th anniversary of the first issue of this scientific pub... see more

Ana Luisa Pérez Cañado

Special Issue: Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and the teaching of languages for specific purposes/Aprendizaje integrado de contenidos y lenguas extranjeras (AICLE) y didáctica de la enseñanza de lenguas para fines específicos

Jorge Braga Riera,Carmen Maíz Arévalo,Carmen Maíz Arévalo

In the past decade, Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been steadily gaining ground in tertiary-level education, with an increasing number of programmes being implemented. However, and despite this growing trend, there is still a wide scope f... see more

Petra Daryai-Hansen,Sonja Barfod,Susanne Hvidtfeldt

The paper presents an e-learning package designed to support vocational language teaching in the Fehmarn Belt region, developed as part of two research projects at Roskilde University, the project Den Mentale Bro (The Mental Bridge) and the BeltScience pr... see more

Miquel Àngel Fuentes

This paper observes the different talk types that occur in an instance of peer interaction in Science through English CLIL classroom and attempts at providing a categorization of the students talk and analyzing their function. The sample chosen correspond... see more

María Soledad Hoyos Pérez

This article presents a study into the application of two methodological approaches, teaching through content and language integrated learning in Voca- tional Training from a sequence of activities developed with several groups of students of the Ciclo Su... see more

Adrijana Krebs,Itziar Simó Arroyo,Itziar Simó Arroyo

In this work we make a suggestion for the development of a Spanish language course for pharmacists or students of Pharmacy whose first language is not Spanish. With the objective of supporting teachers in this demanding task, we provide some guidelines fo... see more

Myriam Maldonado Juárez

The aim of this study is the design of the teaching and learning process of science activities on the circulatory system. Due to the expansion of the EU and the diversity of languages in Europe, the European Commission has been promoting a multilingual an... see more

Laura Martínez Escudero

Contemporary legal institutions like the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) rely on standardized discursive resources to create homogeneous templates for their discourse. Standardization remains useful since it minimizes risks and optimizes t... see more

Joan Masnou Suriñach,Sarah Khan,Sarah Khan

The transition between secondary and tertiary education has often been described as a “gap” implying that it is lacking in some way and that secondary students need better preparation for further education (Jansen & van der Meer, 2012; Juarez-Dappe, 2011;... see more

Nashwa Nashaat Sobhy,César Berzosa,Fiona M. Crean

This paper explains the use of the Schema Theory in planning and preparing a Physiology lesson in a CLIL tertiary context in a Spanish university. The adopted combination of methods used in applying the theory is transferable to any context and subject. S... see more

Eugenio Cianflone

Titles are the first point of contact with readers and are encoded to provide concise information on the paper’s contents. Data from available surveys show that the structural construction conforms to four different layouts, namely nominal, compound, full... see more

Elena Domínguez Romero

In the last ten years, Spanish universities have started to incorporate English as a means of instruction. As a consequence, many lecturers –who regularly use their mother tongue for their teaching activity– have adapted their syllabus contents into Engli... see more

Renia López-Ozieblo

The increased interest in Spanish as a Foreign Language (FL) has meant that in China alone there are 25,000 university students taking Spanish courses (Instituto Cervantes, 2013). The demand for Spanish language and culture courses has yet to be met by ad... see more

Pedro Martín-Martín

This paper reviews how genre-based pedagogy has been conceived by researchers in the different scholarly traditions, and offers a particular view of genre-driven pedagogy and its practical applications in the English as a Second Language student classroom... see more

Carmen Piqué-Noguera

The preeminence of English as the scientific lingua franca, together with the ever-present publish-or-perish dilemma, has brought increasing concern on Spanish scientists striving to achieve international recognition. Spanish journal editors try to make t... see more

Anna Franca Plastina

The rapid evolution from print-based to multimodal information has still not received sufficient attention from the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This paper advocates the need to re-conceptualize ESP through multimodal practice for new opp... see more

Françoise Salager-Meyer,María Ángeles Alcaraz-Ariza

This paper is a diachronic analysis of a corpus of 180 titles drawn from CRs published in the BMJ and the BMJ Case Reports between 1840 and 2009. The frequency of occurrence of 69 variables (e.g. title type and length, punctuation, grammatical and syntact... see more

Grisel S. Salmaso

The focus of my research is Narrative Instances (NIs) of Admission Interviews (AIs) in Public Mental Health carried out in Youth Centres of Mendoza Province, Argentina, within the framework of MOdEAS project. The aim of this paper is to show the functiona... see more

Ivalla Ortega Barrera,Ruth Breeze,Margarita Vinagre,Mandy L. Deal

María Luisa Carrió-Pastor (ed.).2009. Content and language integrated learning: cultural diversity. Bern: Peter Lang AG. Pp. 187. Fortanet-Gómez, Inmaculada. 2013. CLIL in higher education. Towards a multilingual language policy. Bristol: Multilingual Mat... see more